I reviewed this ten years ago and in that time there are two upgrades.
What I can say about the original is it needed an upgrade because listening in my car it seemed like more Dead Air than music
and I had to crank it up to ELEVEN.
That said this is a sweet one nestled amid a whole tour of good music.
First Set has a flawless list
How often did they open with Big River
the entire set jammed nicely
Sure would like to have gotten
a bouncy old school FOTD
Or an interstellar PITB
as Set closer
Second set is deeply sublime
They rock, promised Bertha greatest
they chill , baby blue
they get intense,
cryptical-)other one-)wharf Rat
Both Baby Blue and Cryptical
are super rare in this time period.
Rest of the show is a mix of
first set regulars
And set closer standards
I kinda like this format because we get Biodtl,
Ramble on Rose from a different perspective,
I get why they eventually settled on drums and space every night with a balanced two sets plus an encore. It became like going to the theatre.
And in the larger arena’s across the country
The heads might be like herding cats but the band was show time at 7:30pm and lights on by 11pm
Of course through the power of chemistry
and with the help of G-d and a few friends
a person could pack a lifetime into a show
not to mention Shakedown Street.
Overall this might not be the pinnacle of Fall 72
but any show on this run is Mountain Top to anything post 77 with a few exceptions.
My final comments I need to direct toward the folks of Asheville North Carolina and vicinity.
Hurricane Helene more or less missed my area in Sarasota, Fl although the immediate beach areas got tore up.
I was really happy to have escaped this
But the next day we started hearing and seeing about the damage in the mountains.
I lived in Rutherfordton , N.C for a few years managing a health food store and delivering bread all over the Western Carolina region.
It has been a while over Twenty years but I will never forget the time spent in Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, tubing in the French Broad.
Some of the most kind and godly folks
and also some of the most beautiful country
on the entire East Coast.
So, I am past the age where I can jump in and not be a burden.
But anyone that could help
Please do.
We can share the women
We can share the wine

what's up with them playing It's All Over Now, Baby Blue? Don't have a Deadbase, but it seems to me they hadn't played this in a while and wouldn't play it again for some time to come.

Droncit--
This sounds fabulous. What a killer show. Thank you.

I was hopeful that with the recent release of 9/24 on the 30 Trips set that this was a leaked leftover that didn't make the cut. Should have read the notes first!
So it's immediately obvious that this could never be released commercially. There's a type of hiss that is quite different from tape hiss - it seems to rise and fall with the volume of the music like a sort of distortion. There's also an unusual sort of distortion of the bass, where it sounds like it's been sent through a Boss Octave pedal. Clearly the original recording has suffered some serious damage, which is shame because it's yet another near-perfect 1972 show. I guess we can't have them all.
So even though I won't be keeping this in my library it was nice to listen to on a hike today. Thanks for sharing!